Choose your operating system

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a wide selection of operating systems for your workloads, on virtual machines and bare metal instances across OCI’s distributed cloud.

Available operating systems for OCI Compute

  • Oracle Linux
    Oracle Autonomous Linux

    Oracle’s high performing and secure operating environment for demanding workloads, with unique features and optimizations for OCI and Oracle Database, including zero-downtime automated patching. Oracle Linux Premier Support is included with OCI Compute subscriptions without additional cost.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    One of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platforms. Optimized for a wide range of architectures, enabling a reliable platform for many use cases and a consistent application environment across multiple deployments.

  • Microsoft Windows Server
    Windows Server is the foundation of Microsoft’s ecosystem and a platform for building a fleet of connected applications, networks, and web services. Available in the Compute console.

  • Ubuntu
    Ubuntu Server provides economic and technical scalability to your workload. It offers a lean initial installation along with integrated deployment and application modeling technologies. Available in the Compute console.

  • SUSE
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a secure, adaptable, and easy-to-manage Linux server platform that lets developers and administrators deploy business-critical workloads. Learn how to bring your own image.

  • AlmaLinux
    AlmaLinux is an open source, community-owned and community-governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution, focused on long-term stability and providing a robust production-grade platform. Learn how to bring your own image.

  • Rocky Linux
    Rocky Linux is an open source enterprise operating system (OS), providing solid stability with regular updates and a 10-year support lifecycle. Available in Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

  • CentOS Linux
    CentOS Linux reached end of life on June 30, 2024.

Oracle Linux Premier Support is included on OCI.

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* Operating systems available as platform images in the OCI Compute console may not be available on all compute shapes. Please check the documentation and the console for valid configurations.

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